{"id":570617,"date":"2026-05-07T06:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570617\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:55:11","slug":"he-was-mistaken-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570617\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He was mistaken about me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Manchester United midfielder Casemiro has shown his class by addressing his treatment from Ruben Amorim in a new interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The Brazilian, a \u00a370 million signing from Real Madrid in 2022, has announced he will leave <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportbible.com\/manchester-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United <\/a>in the summer after<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportbible.com\/football\/football-news\/man-utd\/man-utd-premier-league-statement-leaving-915073-20260122\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the two parties mutually agreed to not extend<\/a> his \u00a3350,000-a-week contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">That is despite United supporters calling for<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportbible.com\/casemiro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Casemiro <\/a>to stay put after an impressive turnaround from the 34-year-old, who previously found himself out of favour under previous boss Amorim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Having been one of the first names on the teamsheet under Erik ten Hag, Casemiro was in and out of the side under<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportbible.com\/ruben-amorim\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Amorim,<\/a> who dropped him following a tough outing in a 2-0 loss to Newcastle in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Casemiro was out of the starting eleven for United&#8217;s next nine games and was an unused substitute in seven &#8211; with rookie Toby Collyer even placed ahead of him in the spell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">However, he managed to force his way back into the side and played a key role in the club&#8217;s run to the Europa League final &#8211; where they were beaten 1-0 by Spurs in Bilbao.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Similarly, Casemiro has been integral to the United side which has secured a return to the Champions League with three games remaining under Michael Carrick, winning 10 of his 14 games in charge to climb to third in the table.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Casemiro has had quite the revival at Manchester United. Image: Getty\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"article-image_image__XvzgU\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0YTkwZDA1YWQ0MWE1NGE3MS9ibHQ5NDY0ZmQ1.webp\"\/>Casemiro has had quite the revival at Manchester United. Image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Though he is a five-time Champions League winner, Casemiro believes his resurgence which brought his return to the fold under Amorim is one of his top feats in football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">In an in-depth interview with ESPN Brasil, he said: \u201cIt may have been one of my greatest achievements because, with all the humility in the world, the most normal thing would be to say: &#8216;Hey, the coach isn&#8217;t using me? No problem, I&#8217;ve already won a lot of titles in my career, I&#8217;ve already achieved many things in my life and I&#8217;m here, the coach doesn&#8217;t want to count on me, let him go and I&#8217;ll stay here.&#8217; But no.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cI kept working, I kept trying to show the coach that he was wrong, that he was mistaken about me. I could have, as we say in the world of football, given up, moved on, and that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cBut I kept working, kept trying to change the coach&#8217;s opinion, and I ended up succeeding, I finished playing and having a great end to the season, playing in a Europa League final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cDespite having had several achievements in my career, this may have been one of the greatest achievements I had: reversing the coach&#8217;s opinion. I wasn&#8217;t playing because of the coach&#8217;s opinion. And he ended up putting me in to play because of my merit and work, entirely my own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">In the same interview, Casemiro backed interim boss Carrick <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportbible.com\/football\/football-news\/man-utd\/manchester-united-manager-michael-carrick-andoni-iraola-046887-20260505\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to get the job on a full-time basis <\/a>at the end of the season, telling <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/story\/_\/id\/48686300\/casemiro-michael-carrick-completely-deserves-manchester-united-job-permanently\">ESPN Brasil <\/a>journalist Joao Castelo-Branco that he &#8220;completely deserves it&#8221; and &#8220;has everything to be a great manager of Manchester United&#8221; as he has &#8220;already demonstrated very good qualities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">After his struggles, Casemiro has played 33 times in the Premier League this term &#8211; scoring an impressive nine goals from midfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Yet despite the clamour from United fans, Casemiro is adamant that he will depart for a new challenge &#8211; though he will still be &#8220;an eternal United fan&#8221; beyond his four-year spell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">He admitted: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a chance. There&#8217;s no chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;Mostly because of what I said, you know? Go out the big door, I think it was four beautiful, wonderful years and I am eternally grateful not only to the club, but to the fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;But I think I have to leave in good terms, I have to go out on top. I will be an eternal United fan here in England and I just have to thank all the love from the fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United midfielder Casemiro has shown his class by addressing his treatment from Ruben Amorim in a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21086,59,349,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-570617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-casemiro","tag-gb","tag-manchester-united","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}